Lemon

This is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime. In the summer of 2002, Kim Hae-on was killed in what became known as the High School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could be pinned. The case went cold. Seventeen years pass without justice, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she's lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened. Shifting between the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on's classmates, Lemon ostensibly takes the shape of a crime novel. But identifying the perpetrator is not the main objective here: Kwon Yeo-sun uses this well-worn form to craft a searing, timely exploration of privilege, jealousy, trauma, and how we live with the wrongs we have endured and inflicted in turn. Praise for Lemon: 'Discovering whodunnit isn't really the point here; Lemon is a subtle, often intense meditation on the after-effects of violence' Guardian 'Chilling, suspenseful and disconcerting... I couldn't put it down and read deep into the night until I finished it, with my heart hammering' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face

Product details

• Authors: Yeo-Sun Kwon, Kwon Yeo-sun
• Assisted by: Janet Hong (Translation)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781800241497
• ISBN: 978-1-80024-149-7
• No. of pages: 147
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction & related items, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, South Korea, Crime and mystery fiction, Literary fiction, Fiction and Related items, FICTION / World Literature / Korea, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary